May 2012 – Page 11 – San Diego Jewish World

Netanyahu seems assured to retain prime minister’s office

May 3, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israeli voters appear ready to renew the lease of Benyamin Netanyahu on the Prime Minister’s Office. A poll reported in Ha’aretz shows a near majority (48 percent) favoring him as Prime Minister. The aggregate support of his three nearest competitors do not match him: 15 percent prefer Shelli Yehemovich of Labor, […]

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“R-e-s-p-e-c-t, A Musical Celebration of Women” rocks Lyceum

May 2, 2012

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—OK, You want some respect, ladies? Head down to the San Diego Repertory Theatre and pop in to Dorothy Marcic’s Respect, A Musical Celebration of Women and you will get an earful! Four local and highly respected musical talents, Nancy Snow Carr, Leigh Scarritt, Lisa H. Payton and Kelsey Venter sing

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Under diplomatic cover, U.S. will abandon Afghanistan

May 2, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –There is a lesson in the reports of Barack Obama’s visit with the President of Afghanistan a year after bin Laden’s killing. As reported by the BBC: “US President Barack Obama has pledged to ‘finish the job’ and end the Afghan war, addressing the US public live from a military base

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Ira Sharkansky, USA

How we can distinguish among levels of holiness

May 2, 2012

By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK– It was a year when the holidays fell on the same days of the week as they do this year. The first day of Passover was on a Saturday, a Shabbat, so that Shavuot fell on a Sunday. Saturday night was the beginning of Shavuot. That calendar quirk

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Jewish Religion

Campaign 2012: Dumanis and Filner press mayoral candidacies

May 1, 2012

-Staff report- SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The two Jewish candidates in the four-person San Diego mayoral contest campaigned on Tuesday by announcing endorsements and urging national action to improve the ports. One of those mayoral candidates, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, was lauded by former Democratic Congresswoman Lynn Schenk, who said of the Republican law enforcement

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Travel and Food

Joanna Zeiger inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

May 1, 2012

COMMACK, N.Y (Press Release). –Joanna Sue Zeiger, a 2000 Olympian and 2008 World Champion in triathlon and Ph.D. in genetic epidemiology, was inducted with eight other sports figures April 29 into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame located at the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center here.. Zeiger, a native San Diegan now residing in

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Travel and Food

Neither for U.S., Israel does partisanship end at water’s edge

May 1, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — At one time, a mantra of American politics was that politics stops at the water’s edge. Then there was Vietnam. Long before Vietnam there was considerable dispute about entering World War I. Irish immigrants were prominent among those not wanting to risk themselves for Great Britain. When the next

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Three items of good news for Israel

May 1, 2012

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –What some seem to regard as bad news for Israel may, in fact, bode well for its future. I’m referring to the uproar in the country and abroad following the very public criticism by Yuval Diskin, the former head of internal security, when he spoke of the “messianic” scaremongering about

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Middle East

May a golem count towards a minyan?

May 1, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — As a child, I used to love reading the golem stories attributed to Rabbi Judah Lowe, a.k.a., the famous “Maharal of Prague” (1525-1609). Since my father came from Czechoslovakia, I grew up hearing many family tales about the golem. These stories were especially delightful since my

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Netanyahu seems assured to retain prime minister’s office

“R-e-s-p-e-c-t, A Musical Celebration of Women” rocks Lyceum

Under diplomatic cover, U.S. will abandon Afghanistan

How we can distinguish among levels of holiness

Campaign 2012: Dumanis and Filner press mayoral candidacies

Joanna Zeiger inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

Neither for U.S., Israel does partisanship end at water’s edge

Three items of good news for Israel

May a golem count towards a minyan?

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